Lately I've grown weary of the overall tone that Hollywood productions (and to some extend American media productions in general) have. Maybe I've gotten old or

Lately I've grown weary of the overall tone that Hollywood productions (and to some extend American media productions in general) have. Maybe I've gotten old or maybe I'm hopelessly out of touch with mainstream culture but two things in particular alienate me (and my friends): 1. The need to somehow shove god into everything. Vocal religiousness makes me (and I think many Europeans) quite uncomfortable. 2. Pornographic celebration of violence contrasted with ridiculous prudishness. One of the children's movies (or maybe "family" movies) I watched when I was a kid had female toplessness in it. Judging by the late effects, today, decades later, I can tell you that this causes absolutely zero problems. Neither does male nudity. But today, whenever I go to the cinema, I must be prepared to see people being hacked to pieces, which is IMO totally fucked up. Not that I have any problem with violence in movies, but why does it have to be _every single one_ of them? I mean Pirates of the Caribbean 2? That is a movie made for children by Disney. Why does it start with explicit scenes in a torture prison? I have, however, observed one positive trend, which is the growing willingness of television series producers to take a more relaxed stance towards nudity. Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy. Hmpff.